Ribbon-guide for tucking-blades.



No. 835,991. PATENTED NOV. 13, 1906.

B. I. TOWNSEND & H. S. BOLLES. RIBBON GUIDE FOR TUCK'ING BLADES.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.12.1906.

FHE NORRIS Pawns co., WASHINGTQN, n. c.

UNITED STATES. PATENT oEEIoE.

ELLA F. TOWNSEND AND HENRY S. BOLLES, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. '13, 1906.

Application filed March 12, 1906. Serial No. 305,687-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ELLA F. TOWNSEND and HENRY S. BoLLEs, citizens of the United States, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have jointly invented a new and useful Ribbon-Guide for Tricking-Blades, of

which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in aribbon-guide for tucking-blades; and it consists in the novel arrangement, construction, and combination of parts, as will be fully hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of our invention is to provide an attachment to a tucking-blade through which ribbon, tape, or the like is guided be tween the cloth while in the act ofhemming and to dispense with the use of the bodkin.

A further object of our invention is to provide an attachment whereby the ribbon, tape, or cord may be guided between the cloth while forming a hem and yet prevent the stitches of the machine from coming in contact with the ribbon in the hem.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our invention shown in position on a sewing-machine. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of our complete invention. Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of a part in section, showing the construction of the ribbonguide. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of the modified form of guide.

In the construction of our invention we provide a strand of material 7, provided with a bend 8 at its one end and having a portion 9 bent rearwardly, forming a guideway .10 between the strand 7 and the portion 9. In this guideway we provide a slide member 11, which is held in position by means of its ends 12 being bent over the portion 9 and under the strand 7. (See Fig. 5.) The object of this slide is to regulate the space within the guide between the end 8 and the slide member 11 to accommodate any desired width of ribbon to be inserted between the cloth.

13 indicates the tucking-blade, which is of the ordinary construction, its end 14 being suitably bent to permit free movement of the cloth, and in the blade we provide a slit 15. The material 16 at the point wherein the slit 15 is formed is bent upwardly, providing a passage-way through which the tape 17 may freely pass. The slit 15 is of suflicient size to accommodate any desired width of ribbon to loop 18, formed in the blade 13 by providing two slits in the material and pressing the said material upwardly, as indicated by the numeral 19. Through this the strand 7 is passed, as shown in Fig. 2.

The tucking-guide is provided with a pair of elongated slots 20, through which are passed screws 21, which retain said tucking-blade u on the plate 22, and the said tuckingb ade, by means of the screws and slots, can be adjusted to regulate the size of the hem to accommodate the width of ribbon to be inserted. The plate 22 is pivotally connected to the table of the-machine by means of the pivot 23. The object of pivoting the plate is to permit the entire device to be shifted to one side when the seamstress desires to use the machine independent of the attachment.

The essential feature of our invention is a guide attachment to the tucking-blade and the manner of retaining it in position. 4 In this manner a ribbon, tape, or cord may be inserted in the hem simultaneously with the forming of the hem and is so guided as to prevent the threads of the sewing-machine from coming in contact with the strand to be in serted. This formation will dispense with the use of a bodkin, which is now the common manner of inserting tape or the like through a hem of a cloth.

In referring to Fig. 6, we show a modified form of guide. This device is preferably used when it is desired to insert a cord in the hem, and to use this the guide previously described is removed from the loop on the tucking-blade and the modified form of guide inserted.

Having fully described our invention, what we claim is- 1. A device of the class described comprising a guide in combination with a tuckingblade, a slide member adjustably mounted upon the guide, a loop formed in the tuckingblade for supporting the guide, the tuckingblade provided with a slit through which the tape is passed for retaining the tape in alinement with the guide during the formation of a hem on the material in which the tape is to be inserted, substantially as specified.

2. A device of the class described comprising a guide formed of a strand of material suitably bent to form a guideway, a slide located between the bent sections of the strand,

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7 blade having slots and a slit for the passage its ends bent over and under and arranged to of the guide and tucking-blade is to permit [0 be adjusted between the sections to aocommothe hem to be formed and the insertion of the date the various Widths of ribbon, a tuokingribbon Within the hem during the same oper- 1 ation, substantially as specified. of the ribbon, a plate pivotally mounted ELLA. F. TOWNSEND. upon a sewing-machine table, the said ,tuok HENRY S. BOLLES. ing blade adjustably mounted upon said Witnesses: plate to regulate the size of the hem in which CHARLOTTE WELBORN,

the ribbon is to be inserted, the arrangement I ELMIRA TOWNSEND. 

